Dear <<First Name>>,
Welcome to your weekly update, letting you know what's happening at St John's.
CHURCH NEWS
Cornerstone Magazine: The next magazine is now available.
Cornerstone Café is open Monday to Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10.30am-5pm.
Cornerstone Bookshop is open Mon-Sat, 10.00am-5.30pm.
Scottish Country Dancing: weekly on Sundays at 7.15pm after Evensong.
Fresh Start provides household basics for recently homeless people. Please leave any donations on the shelves or they can be collected. Please contact: Clare Parsons on 01316672221. Freshstartweb.org.uk
Christian Aid and the Marmalade Market: We raised £350 for Christian Aid! Thanks to all who contributed and all who bought. We hope you are enjoying the delicious results.
Lenten Study Group: Wednesdays after the 11.00am service. ‘The Merciful Humility of God’, by Jane Williams. If you are interested, please contact Eileen Thompson (
eileencthompson@gmail.com).
Creative together plan to hold another Button sale in September. The last event was hugely successful raising £4500 for Marie Curie. They are looking for buttons, buckles, hat pins etc to be donated, if you have any of these items please contact
Sheila Waterer 0131 312 7265 or hand them into the church office.
In order to honour Remembrance Day, vestry decided to move this year’s
Annual General Meeting to the third Sunday of November, i.e. 18th November 2019. Please mark your calendars.
Compline, the service asking for God’s protection not just through the night, is sung every Thursday throughout Lent.
Morning Prayer is prayed in the chapel by Markus and Rosie, Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays & Fridays at 9am. All are welcome to join them.
Preceding the
Maundy Thursday service
(18th April, 730pm) there will be a church potluck at
6pm. Bring a dish you could share with one extra person! Please contact Oscar on
oscar.richard.kelly.os@aberdeen.ac.uk to coordinate.
Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland has arranged a training day on
April 11th at Palmerston Place church. This is an introduction to WPCS and is open to anyone who would like to find out more about the chaplaincy or who may be considering a call to be involved. There is a morning session which begins at
10 am and an afternoon session which will explore aspects of confidentiality- again open to anyone interested. Leaflets are available in the church, or for more information contact
andrew.gregg@wpcscotland.co.uk , mobile 07834 748129.Bookings can be made on https://190411-intro.eventbrite.co.uk
Church walks: Saturday walk on 20th April, Easter Saturday (Binning Wood near Tyninghame). Thursday walk on 4th April (Tweedbank to Abbotsford). Please see the porch for further details.
Readers’ & Intercessors’ Training: 17th March - following the 10:30am Eucharist.
Messy Café, Saturday 23rd March, 10am-12pm at St John’s. All are welcome, BSL & English. Cafe style drop in with crafts, snacks and coffee. More info contact Beki on
beki@stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk
On
Saturday 23rd March a journey will be led around local churches celebrating the life of St Oscar Romero – ‘a voice for the voiceless’ allowing time for short prayer and reflection. It will begin at
St John’s church at
930am and will end at the Sacred Heart Church, Lauriston Street where there will be an opportunity to visit the Romero Shrine and watch the Romero film ‘The Claim’.
Servers’ & Liturgical Deacons’ Training: 24
th March, following the 10:30am Eucharist.
David Todd, Arts Project Leader for Greenside Parish Church in partnership with Edinburgh City Centre Churches Together, is showing the film
Life is Beautiful at
St Andrew’s & St George’s West Church at
7pm on
Wednesday 27th March 2019. The film lasts one hour and fifty minutes and will be followed by a short discussion. Entry is free, all are welcome, and donations are gratefully received for refreshments.
Bridge evening to be held on
28th March at the Cornerstone Centre at 6.30 p.m. we have now sold 13 tables and are looking for a
couple of volunteers to provide general help with welcome, wine and raffle ticket sales for a couple of hours. Could you help us? Contact
colinneilmce@gmail.com or church office
St John’s will be open for prayer from 9am to 11pm on the
29th of March (or whenever the UK will be leaving the EU). Compline will be sung at 11pm, the precise moment of the end of EU-membership.
Please join us for the April bicentenary pulpit 7 April. The preacher will be our very own Alistair Dinnie, member of the choir, Edinburgh City Council coordinator for refugees, and the Scottish Episcopal Church’s representative on the Anglican Consultative Council.
The last bicentenary pulpit with our own very own bishop (the Rt Revd
John Armes) will be
Sunday 5th May. This will also be
Anthony Hammond’s (our new Director of Music) first Sunday (please keep him and his wife Helen in your prayers in this time of transition).
